Come collaborate and share your knowledge of spurious pedigrees. Add links; add profiles; identify wishful thinking, leaps of fancy, mistakes since corrected but still in circulation ... and outright scams.
from Fraudulent Genealogy by Lisa South, Certified Genealogist
There are many reasons that people create fraudulent genealogies:
1. Family members that are trying to hide something...

THE UNBROKEN CHAIN
Biographical Sketches and Genealogy of Illustrious Jewish Families from the 15th - 20th Century. Dr. Neil Rosenstein's magnum opus The Unbroken Chain was first published as a single volume in 1976. An expanded two-volume second edition of "The Unbroken Chain" was published in 1990.
The author announced in December 2012 that he was in the process of earnestly editing...

Genealogia Sursilliana
Genealogia Sursilliana is an ancient genealogy project, stemming from the 1500’s. It concerns Erik Ångerman and his family, later known as Sursill, from Teg (now Umeå) Sweden. The history and the study of the family has reached almost legendary proportions.
According to some current research the name Sursill was first adopted by those members of the family who moved o...

Karjala (Finnish) / Karelen (Swedish) / Karelia (English)
Karelia can generally be defined as the region of land between the Baltic Sea and White Sea settled by the Karelian ethnic group approximately 8,000 years ago. The region has been culturally divided since the 13th century into two halves, Western Karelia (also known as Swedish Karelia or Finnish Karelia) and Eastern Karelia (also known...

(Any of the text is written in Norwegian)
The Scottish Project is established for genealogical reason. Specific for this Project is emigrating from Scotland to Norway. Such emigrating do we find written in Norwegian Sources.
Some profiles of Scots who settled Down in Norway are linked to the Project.
People (Homo Sapiens) have been living in Scotland since ca 10500 years ago. The archaeol...

This project aims to organise genealogical data for places and families of Slovenia.
For instructions on how to use Geni, refer to the Geni Help Portal
Navodila za uporabo programa Geni najdete na Geni Help Portal
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Slovensko rodoslovje
Slovensko rodoslovno društvo

Welcome to the Croatia Portal
News
Geni will be participating in the first-ever MyHeritage user conference. November 2-4, 2018 in Oslo, Norway.
See for details
Watch and see: Live Stream of conference event, in Oslo, Norway, November 2-4, 2018
Compare-a-Face - Compare your face to your relatives. See which ancestors you look the most like. To get started, upload a photo of yourself. o...

The SS "Høvding" sailed from Kristiania/Christiania (now Oslo), Norway on May 31, 1872. It arrived Napier, New Zealand, on September 01, 1872, after a voyage of 93 days with 365 Norwegians and 11 Danes on board. The passengers settled in New Zealand.
Norsewood cemetery co, Høvding emigrants
Migrations from Scandinavia to New Zealand, TeAra govt.nz
Emigranter 1872 med ss "Høvding" fra Os...

The Swedish fortress and town on the shore of River Neva (1611-1703)
Neovia - Nyenskans - Nyen - Nevanlinna - Ниенша́нц
Neovia , as the entire Swedish Ingria , was a short-lived project of less than a hundred years during the time of Sweden's "stormaktstid", the period as a powerful European nation.
There were at least hundreds, possibly up to some 2,500 people living in Neovia. Most of t...

Luso-Asiaticos
To commemorate the compilation of Genealogist Jorge Forjaz, this Genealogy Project has been set up.
It is the place as a project to compile all the ancestors who are called Luso-Asiáticos. The ancestors or descendants of these people may have been born or would have lived in parts of the Indian subcontinent which were part of the Portuguese Empire (Índia Portuguesa) under the...

This project aims to organise genealogical data for places and families of Croatia by region. The project is subdivided further into sub-projects. If you need help please leave your questions on discussion board for this project. For sources and links please see - izvori i informacije
If you need to edit the project (add links) , please make sure you edit default version, otherwise we will ...

in progress, but not closed yet or ever... and bring your friendly -not-german speaking, but with origines in germany-europe with you. any invitation if serious is to be honoured here, so don't stay alone!
QUELLEN - not sorted yet, but it's a start !
... FamilySeach'i German sources
German archives

This project gathers together the Geni profiles for all of the notable figures who have been - or will be - featured on the genealogical television program, Finding Your Roots . It is a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) public television series hosted by Professor Henry Louis Gates .
The first season originally aired March 25 – May 20, 2012 from 8–9 p.m. EDT. A second season airs September 23...

Project
Norwegian Ancestry - information
There are 5 million Norwegians living in Norway today (2012) and somewhere between 5 and 15 million Americans with Norwegian ancestry.
Since most Norwegian-Americans do not speak Norwegian this project aims to explain Norwegian genealogy and practices relevant for genealogy and Geni.com in particular.
We have a project "Introduksjon til Geni co...

Emigration from Norway to the United States of America.
This project is about emigrants from Norway to USA.
Index
Links
Norwegian-American
Settlements in The US
From which county in Norway was the emigrants born?
Østfold
Akershus
Oslo
Hedmark
Oppland
Buskerud
Vestfold
Telemark
Aust Agder
Vest Agder
Rogaland
Hordaland
Sogn og Fjordane
Møre og Romsdal
S...

Project:
"Hanseatic League and Bourgeoisie in Bergen"
"Hansaforbundet og borgerskap i Bergen".
This project has as its aim to create on * Geni.com an accurate representation of the genealogical information present in the Hanseatic League and Bourgeoisie in Bergen literature that present a reasonably coherent picture.
Hanseatic League started about 1070 "Kontor in Bergen" and ceaced ab...

Several people in the group on Facebook for ancestry.com's popular We're Related app are using Geni - it would be GREAT to get them all in one place. More to come Profiles to add: None, apart from yourself - i'd like to discuss with site curators what to do about app's matching to the celebs etc.

Project "Portal für Deutsch sprachige.Germany" is an "umbrella" project where almost all German projects on Geni can be found. It is easiest to write in English to this project such as people all over the world can understand the text.
Some profiles of german people will also be added to this project.
For instructions on how to use Geni, refer to the Geni Help Portal
Projects on Geni
No...

Join this project (select ACTIONS (top right) and click Join Project ) if you are or would like to become part of Collaboration Pool.
If you join this project, you are indicating your willingness to accept all collaboration requests from anyone else who has joined this project.
To remove yourself from Collaboration Pool simply leave this project (Actions > Leave Project ) and Unfollow .
...

Welcome to the Hungarian Portal on Geni
This Hungarian Portal has been created to:
Link together existing Hungarian projects
Encourage new Hungarian projects to be created
Encourage collaboration between Hungarian-based Geni users, and Geni users worldwide who have Hungarian interests and connections
Promote and facilitate Hungarian genealogical research
Promote Hungary, its peopl...

International Projects
International Help Portal
Civil Registry and Church Records around the World
Wonders of the World
Ode to Joy - Anthem / European Union , Listen to 10 Top Anthems
Please feel free to list your Project under (1) Country of Origin, or (2) Global Area of Interest.
If a link doesn't work, just go to Projects Page and paste the project name in the search b...

Genealogy Software for Personal Devices
The purpose of this project is to supply information regarding Genealogy Software available for personal devices and to offer some feedback on specific packages from Geni users. It is a collaborative project which hopefully will offer guidance to those choosing such software.
There are many databases which are specifically designed to record family hi...

Piteå Rural Municipality Locality Project
Genealogy project for Piteå Rural Municipality, Sweden.This is a project aiming at a common, complete, and correct tree built of persons from Piteå Rural Municipality, Norrbotten county, Sweden. If you have people in the tree you are working on from Piteå Rural Municipality, who you could use help with, add their profiles to the project. You can also ...

This is intended as a portal for families projects from Croatia.
If you have created a project for your family, please link it and add it to this project on the alphabetical list.
Both versions are available in Croatian and English, so please update the same link from the Family surname geni project link when you updating on the list below.
If yours families surname is from different plac...

Purpose
NOTE: This project was formerly known by the name: "Fake and Pretend Profiles on geni.com :)
For the purposes of this project, " fake profiles " are defined as profiles that are fictional characters. Examples are characters from cartoon, movies, books, video games, TV, corporate advertising or other media.
This project also includes profiles created by real users claiming to be fi...

This is an umbrella project about sourcing in genealogy.
Please don't add any profiles but feel free to collaborate and contribute.
It's a large topic, so please set up "related" projects to cover more specific areas.
Types of Sources
Primary sources , which are the most trusted ones, are written at the time of the event, like the priest writing a baptism in a churchbook; or a firstha...

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame established in 1986 and located in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, is dedicated to recording the history of some of the best-known and most influential musicians, bands, producers, and others that have in some major way influenced the music industry, particularly in the area of rock and roll. Originally, there were four categories of induction: performers, non-per...

Progress
Here I document my DNA genealogy related additions where I work through the tree horizontally. This is needed to connect DNA matches since you never know where they fit beforehand. I have completed five generations. My next goal is six.
What is missing?
Pending
Father NN of Georg Alexander Hellström b. September 7, 1839, Gothenburg, Garnisonsförsamlingen, Västra Götaland Coun...

This project is to assemble genealogists of note - the scholars who studied the descent of persons or families.
It is organized by area of the world and historical period. Please add your ancestor or role model to the project (must be set to public). Collaborators, feel free to update the overview, particularly in indexing "notables."
Sovereign Dynasties - Western Europe
Rev. James Ande...

The municipality of Stange is situated on the east side of the lake Mjøsa. It borders the municipalities of Hamar on the north; Løten, Våler, and Åsnes to the east; Nord-Odal to the south; and Eidsvoll to the west. Stange consists of several areas that were previously distinct, including Vallset, Romedal, Espa, Åsbygda, Tangen, and Stange itself. The municipality can be roughly divided into two...

Military of Split, Croatia, Austria-Hungary soldiers (1886 -1922)
This project is about the Austro-Hungary army and military persons from church records, children of soldiers who was born and baptized, about soldiers who has married in Split, Croatia, names of their wifes and parents, information about a person, soldier, member of military regiment and occupations. Also an information of sold...

New Beta Imminent
Great news.
We'll send out an email with all the details. It will be a little rough around the edges, but I am sure you can handle that.
This will be a small, very specific test for next week until the 1st of February or so. We have added a TON of new formats. We want to ensure our reading and writing is working great. So here's what we'll happen.
You will be limited...

Family Mayen / Maijen / Maien / Maaijen / Meyen / May
Ede, Arnhem, Bocholt
Is there a relation between the profilis in this project?
Does the name Mayen originate from the German town Mayen (www.mayen.de)?

(Any of the text is written in Norwegian).
In this project it is stories about people mostly in the US (United States of America) who immigrated from Norway. It is added stories from Norway and Norwegians abroad.
In the profiles added to this project one find the stories about the specific person. Each person has his or her own story, and this story is unique for each and personal. The st...

Finnish Coffee Corner
In this project you can add links to important sources of Finnish genealogy, documents and other relevant information.
Sources in Finland
(Finland's Family History Association - information even in English)
(The Genealogical Society of Finland)
(parish register information in English)
(parish register information in Swedish)
(parish register information...

Don't fabricate facts!
Place or date unknown LEAVE IT BLANK or enter as such -
Place assumed by other given facts - enter as eg:
Parents place of KNOWN marriage place
other siblings KNOWN birthplace
Place of residence pre Census Records
Date should be left blank or listed as:
est - estimated
bef - before
aft - after
betw - between
or if assumed
Placing facts not ...

Este projeto se destina a listar os perfis das pessoas naturais de Jundiaí, SP, Brasil, e de outras pessoas relacionadas a elas ou à cidade.
This project shall gather profiles and information about people from Jundiaí, State of São Paulo, Brazil, and other people related to them or to the municipality.

This project documents lineages where information is circulating that was taken from the work of Gustav Anjou (1863-1952), sometimes spelled Gustave Anjou, an infamous genealogical inventor whose meticulous but fraudulent research influenced the family "histories" of many prominent American families in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Add profiles to this project if you know that the p...

billiongraves.com/geni
Welcome to the BillionGraves Team Portal!
This is the home base for Geni users who want to help with the collaborative effort between Geni and BillionGraves to help photograph and transcribe all the world's gravestones in order to preserve them and their information for future generations. Any and all Geni users who wish to participate in any w...

Welcome to the Czech Portal, Czech Republic, Czechia, Bohemia, Moravia on Geni
Czech Portal looking for Volunteers Curators for Geni from Czech Republic - look at nominations
For Apply to become a Curator. See
For learn about curators and what they do on Geni, see: .
Current Geni Curators and their work area are :
Tomáš Kitlar (Czech Republic),
FARKAS Mihály László (Czech fami...

AustriaFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThis article is about the country. For other uses, see Austria (disambiguation)."Österreich" and "Oesterreich" redirect here. For the surname rendered in either of these two ways, see Österreich (surname). For the Austrian national anthem, whose melody is often given the short-form name "Österreich" or "Oesterreich", see Land der Berge, Land am Strome...

A group about using Wikipedia text in MP profiles about boxes, and related matters that have been discussed in discussion threads.
Links
Plagiarism
Plagiarism from Wikipedia
Creative Commons license
Wikipedia:Text of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
Derivative work
Discussions
Overview - What is Appropriate
Curators: My profile is ...

Curators, please don't forget to add your projects, thank you.
The aim of this project is to collect and identify curator projects so that geni members will be better able to see which curators are serving in the area of their particular interest. As the project progresses, links under the subjects will be better sub-categorized.
Click "Related Projects" on right for more comprehensive ...

Objective
This project is very focused . It only considers people and profiles who arrived in New Sweden between 1638 and 1655.
For many Americans, New Sweden is the gateway to their European ancestors. In turn, for many Europeans, there are lots of 'lost relatives' who simply disappeared from the European records because they emigrated to New Sweden and the 'new world'. The proje...

Cheshire Genealogical Resources
Image - No image of Cheshire Record Office Sourced
The purpose of this project is to outline the regional resources available for research in Cheshire, both geographical/physical and online.

About Geni Philippines
W elcome everyone. T his is your place as you build your family tree online and your gateway to the Filipino community on Geni.
T his project aims to provide you an educational and wonderful Geni genealogical experience; a venue for collaboration of your shared family tree of common ancestors; a chance to discover your historical roots and significantly contribute to ...

Scope of Project
The objective of this project is to collect genealogically interesting information about university students representing the Northern European nationalities who studied in European universities from the time when first of them were established until 1640 , which was the year of the founding of the old Turku Academy (Academia Aboensis) in Finland, then part of Sweden.
Stu...

Welcome to the Montenegro Portal on Geni
Montenegro portal looking for Volunteers Curators for Geni from Montenegro - look at nominations
For Apply to become a Curator. See
For learn about curators and what they do on Geni, see: .
Work in progress
This Montenegro Portal has been created to:
Link together existing Montenegro projects
Encourage new Montenegro projects to be cr...

Hello,
In this project You are welcome to for participate, co-operate and helping in researching.
If you are interested in participating or want to become part of this project - just join this project (select ACTIONS (upper right) and click 'Join Project' )
This is the subproject of the
Culic project, Related to Family Culic (Čulić) from Split, Kaštel Sućurac, Croatia
Migration Port...

This is a master project for Iceland and its history.
Iceland[7][8] i/ˈaɪslənd/ (Icelandic: Ísland, IPA: [ˈislant]; see Names for Iceland), described as the Republic of Iceland by many foreign authorities,[6][4][5] is a Nordic European island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.[9] Iceland also refers to the main island of the country, which contains about 98.6% o...

Forefathers of Medical Treatments through the Ages
Photo: Hippocrates , engraving by Peter Paul Rubens , 1638. from Wikipedia, Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine.
Please add ONLY profiles of physicians and "healers" with significant contribution to medicine through the ages.
This project is NOT intended to become a list of physicians of ones country. For such purpose - o...